LEADER 04378oam 2200505 450 001 9910162729103321 005 20210112153639.0 010 $a0-8070-6468-8 035 $a(CKB)3710000001043929 035 $a(DLC) 2016023420 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5337939 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL5337939 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL993097 035 $a(OCoLC)1031967240 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000001043929 100 $a20160518d2017 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 10$aStand your ground $ea history of America's love affair with lethal self-defense /$fCaroline E. Light 210 1$aBoston :$cBeacon Press,$d2017. 215 $a1 online resource 311 $a0-8070-6466-1 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aAuthor's note : mom the sharp-shooter -- Introduction : when good citizenship is armed citizenship -- "That great law of nature" : the origins of a selective self-defense culture -- Defensive violence and the "true man" : the end of reconstruction -- "Mighty power in the hands of the citizen" : justice and true manhood in the western borderlands -- "Queer justice" and the sexual politics of lynching -- "An American tradition" : the paramilitary response to white supremacist terror and unequal protection -- "The stuff of pulp fiction" : unreasonable women, vigilante heroes, and the rise of the armed citizen -- Avoiding a "a fate worse than death" : how we learned to stand our ground -- Conclusion : legal blindspots and epistemic shifts : self-defense and exclusionary citizenship. 330 $aA history of America's Stand Your Ground gun laws, from Reconstruction to Trayvon MartinAfter a young, white gunman killed twenty-six people at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, in December 2012, conservative legislators lamented that the tragedy could have been avoided if the schoolteachers had been armed and the classrooms equipped with guns. Similar claims were repeated in the aftermath of other recent shootings-after nine were killed in a church in Charleston, South Carolina, and in the aftermath of the massacre in the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Florida. Despite inevitable questions about gun control, there is a sharp increase in firearm sales in the wake of every mass shooting.Yet, this kind of DIY-security activism predates the contemporary gun rights movement-and even the stand-your-ground self-defense laws adopted in thirty-three states, or the thirteen million civilians currently licensed to carry concealed firearms. As scholar Caroline Light proves, support for "good guys with guns" relies on the entrenched belief that certain "bad guys with guns" threaten us all.Stand Your Ground explores the development of the American right to self-defense and reveals how the original "duty to retreat" from threat was transformed into a selective right to kill. In her rigorous genealogy, Light traces white America's attachment to racialized, lethal self-defense by unearthing its complex legal and social histories-from the original "castle laws" of the 1600s, which gave white men the right to protect their homes, to the brutal lynching of "criminal" Black bodies during the Jim Crow era and the radicalization of the NRA as it transitioned from a sporting organization to one of our country's most powerful lobbying forces.In this convincing treatise on the United States' unprecedented ascension as the world's foremost 330 8 $astand-your-ground nation, Light exposes a history hidden in plain sight, showing how violent self-defense has been legalized for the most privileged and used as a weapon against the most vulnerable. 606 $aSelf-defense (Law)$xSocial aspects$zUnited States 606 $aFirearms$xLaw and legislation$xSocial aspects$zUnited States 606 $aAfrican Americans$xCivil rights 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aSelf-defense (Law)$xSocial aspects 615 0$aFirearms$xLaw and legislation$xSocial aspects 615 0$aAfrican Americans$xCivil rights. 676 $a345.73/04 700 $aLight$b Caroline E.$01249023 801 0$bDLC 801 1$bDLC 801 2$bDLC 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910162729103321 996 $aStand your ground$92894597 997 $aUNINA LEADER 01025nam a2200253 i 4500 001 991000843349707536 008 050218s1996 mnu 001 0 eng d 020 $a0314094229 035 $ab13281501-39ule_inst 040 $aDip.to Studi Giuridici$bita 082 0 $a346.73074 245 00$aRestatement of the law, suretyship and guaranty /$cas adopted and promulgated by the American Law Institute at Chicago, Illinois, May 19, 1995 246 1 $aRestatement of the law third 260 $aSt. Paul, Minn. :$bAmerican Law Institute Publishers,$c1996 300 $axx, 361 p. ;$c26 cm 500 $aInclude tavole e indice 650 4$aGaranzia$zStati Uniti 710 2 $aAmerican Law Institute 907 $a.b13281501$b21-09-06$c18-02-05 912 $a991000843349707536 945 $aLE027 346.73 ALI01.01$g1$lle027$og$pE30.00$q-$rl$s- $t0$u0$v0$w0$x0$y.i14010379$z18-02-05 996 $aRestatement of the law, suretyship and guaranty$91108158 997 $aUNISALENTO 998 $ale027$b18-02-05$cm$da $e-$feng$gmnu$h0$i0